Struggling….

Something still isn’t right. I spend every day trying to figure out what to do. It’s like there’s this other life I’m supposed to be living, so that almost every aspect of my actual life feels wrong somehow. 

It’s like life is a giant shape-sorter and all the holes are shaped like squares, but all I have are triangle blocks, so every day I’m looking at the square holes and trying to figure out how to make the triangle blocks fit. And wondering how come it seems like everyone else has the square blocks.

So that’s why I haven’t been blogging. How can this be a blog where I write about what my life is like, when I’m so ashamed of it?  Once again it comes down to Table for Five being a “brand”, and not just being afraid of losing the advertisers that pay me money that we need like you can’t believe, but not wanting to, I don’t know, spoil what I’ve worked so hard on for these last seven years.

I’ve been self-medicating my pain. I’m not going to get into specifics, and I’m not in any danger, I swear, but I’m also making some really crappy choices.  My sleeping schedule is so screwed up that even spending the last week taking no mid-day nap at all still left me lying awake staring at the ceiling until 2:30 or 3:00 am every night.

I’ve lost my patience for everything. I hate my messy house, I hate meal planning and grocery shopping and actually getting the food on the table. I hate when I’m exhausted and Kaitlyn wants me to play with her and I’m grumpy about it. I hate getting up every morning and tripping over laundry baskets and toys.  It doesn’t matter how much I clean because it just gets messed up again anyway.

How do I find joy? How do I get myself out of this vicious cycle I feel stuck in?  If anyone has any personal experience they wouldn’t mind sharing, I’d sure appreciate it. And spammers? This is not the post to even try to sneak in your links.  Your Mom did not name you ‘london carparks’ or ‘best seo practices’ or whatever, so just don’t even try this time. I have no patience for you at all.

Friendly Friday 6-17-11

Welcome to Friendly Friday, the weekly celebration hosted by Xenia at Thanks, Mail Carrier, Christi at Frugal Novice and Charla at Healthy Home Blog! It’s a great way to get new followers to your blog, say hello to your blog friends, and make new ones!

To join in the Friendly Friday celebration,go to any of the three blogs listed above , follow the hostesses in the first 3 spots and then start blog hopping! Visit other blogs on the list and comment to give them some blog love. Then take a minute to follow them through Google Friend Connect – this is a good way to keep up with other blogs, but also lets us show support to each other! Please DO NOT list your giveaways here, links must be to either your homepage or your Friday posting with your blog title. All others will be deleted.

When people comment on your blog and let you know they’re a part of Friendly Friday, return the favor and follow them back. This way everyone gets traffic and followers out of participating, and it’s a win-win situation. Feel free to right-click on and save the Friendly Friday button and post it on your blog and/or in a post – the more bloggers that find out about Friendly Friday and participate, the better!

Remember, YOU can host the link list on your blog, too! Just get the InLinkz code from the posts on any of the three hostess blogs and copy it directly into your post. The code is different every week, so be sure to get the new code when hosting Friendly Friday on your blog. Hosting the list is a great way to get even more traffic to your blog and make Friendly Friday more beneficial for everyone.

Happy Friday everybody! In addition to Father’s Day, this Sunday is also my 18th wedding anniversary! Of course, Chris and I have no money to really celebrate either one :P We’re going to the movies tonight to see “Super 8″ and that will be our celebration for both occasions. Which is fine with us since we haven’t been to a movie in ages.

Yesterday I wrote about how awesome my kids are and how well they all did this school year. If you haven’t read it, I’d love it if you did! I’m also way overdue for posting new reviews and giveaways on MomReviews so watch for those too. Hope everybody has a great weekend!

Thanks for stopping by today – don’t forget to follow me on Google Friend Connect and please leave your link in the linky list below!



Kaitlyn Breaking Styrofoam Sheets Over Her Knee

Every couple of weeks we take the styrofoam that comes in products I get for review and go to Dart Container to recycle them. Conveniently, Dart is located just a few blocks from the house where Chris’ carpool coworker lives.  The last time we went, Nathan used his Tae Kwon Do skills to break some of the styrofoam sheets over his knee.

Then, this past Saturday we loaded up the van for another trip to Dart, and Ryan came running in to tell me to grab the camera because Kaitlyn was breaking styrofoam sheets over HER knee. Well, that sounded like blogging gold right there, so out with the camera I went. Take a look!